It's a classic appeal to authority. Rather than accept that people actually like what they're playing, they fall back to what they've been told is correct by th

It's a classic appeal to authority. Rather than accept that people actually like what they're playing, they fall back to what they've been told is correct by their design professors. I find it darkly humorous that the UX designer who made that first "Elden Ring got 97 on metacritic. My life is a lie" statement on twitter never really reflected on it.